The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-17

MI Willie b. Burroughs, son of Mr. j. |
f. Burroughs of Dabney, has gone to Oak |
Ridge to school. He went UP last week, |
and ordered thet1oLD LEAF sent to him
while away.
Misses Susie Park and Pearl Finch of
Mecklenburg are in town, stopping at the
Hotel Hatchett. Madame Rumor says one
of them is here making preparation for an
important event.
Cooper has been fairly out-stripping
himself in the way of big prices for to-
bacco lately. Some very high averages
have been obtained bya number of farmers
Fine tobacco is selling remarkably we'll
The Louisburg Times says an attempt was
made TO poison the family of Gen. P. b.
Hawkins in that place last week. Anegro
boy, Humphrey Hawkins, about - years
old, was the perpetrator of the dastardly
act, and Rough on Rats, in the water and
coffee, vast the means adopted. The boy
! is now in Jail.
Brick Pomeroy says there are bad men
i'll the state prison, small men in Office and
mean men in church, but no one is SO bad,
small or mean as he who has not enough
ambition and regard for the county and
town he lives in, and whose business sup
ports him, to take and pay for his local
newspaper.
For the information of a numerous con-
stituency we may as well state first as last
that we will not succeed Daniel Manning
! as SECRETARY of the Treasury. 1t dosen't
| seem to be very healthy place, and the
/ high personal regard we entertain for our
own physical condition will not admit of
Our taking such great risks.
DIR. J. ii. Tucker voluntarily contributes
/ to the January number of the Bulletin of
! the North Carolina Board of Health con-
corning the sanitary condition of Vance
county, as follows: ga few cases of pneu-
mOnia and winter catarrhs have occurred.
Fifteen cases of whooping cough reported.
County in good sanitary condition"
The sidewalk on Montgomery street,
from Lassiter'S corner some ditance below
Currin's livery stables, calls loudly for at
tentiOn from the Street Commissoners-if
there is any such board or body in town.
One of the most prominent thoroughfarns
outside of Main street, it is the most shame
fully neglected. Let the matter be at
tended to.
The town has been full of tobacco for
the past week-all of our warehouse men
are worked to their full ability, and all
grades are bringing good prices. There is
no better tobacco market i'll the State than
ours, and just now it looks as though we
are to attain prominence as horse and
mule market from the number i'll town for
the past several days.
Much interesting aid important local
matter is necessarily lett out this week
owing to lack of space. Although we
adopted the use of smaller type for ouI
local page some time ago, still we find ii
difficult to accommodate our advertising
: patronage and maintain our usual amount
of reading matter. Our next improve
ment will be larger paper.
Mr.. l.. G. Twisdale, one of Vance coun
tvs excellent and successful farmers, and
5 a valued reader Of the GOLD LEAF, sold al
COOpnr's warehouse last Monday one load
of tobacco that averaged him S43.95 pei
hundred; and again yesterday another load
, at an average of $50 for all grades. 1t pays
we'll to raise tobacco when it can be grown
as fine as Mr.. Twisdale makes it.
Of course any observing person can see
it, but perhaps it may not be out of place
, to state that the GOLD LEAF continues t(
grow in popular favor. Its subscription
list is growing steadily larger, and it,
advertising patronage constantly increas
ing. In fact in continues to circulate like
a rolling snow ball OH damp day, gather
ing friends and supporters as it goes.
, The Richmond Dispatch says of the play
Loves Martyr, or Wife's Sacrifice,
which will be presented at Burwell Hal
next Tuesday night by the Agnes Wallace
Villa Company.
The play is a very pleasing one, and i
was we'll presented last night to large
house Miss Sabre Deshon was very gOOt
as Mile. Palmieri, as were the other mem
l bers of the Villa combination in their re
Spective T0kes.
, Samuel Young, native of Africa,
member of the Moonlight tribe or African
Creoles between the country of the Zulu
; and CafferneSe, lectured at the cOlore'
Methodist church in this place last MOnda
: night Samuel Young whose African It'll
is BoOkrouckou, came to America in 1875
l. in charge of the commander of the barqu
S Morning Star, since which time he ha
e been preparing himself for the work of til
J ministry, to return as missionary to hi
l people This is the statement he made t
o us in our office yesterday.
Some excellent sales of tobacco hav
- been made at Cooper's warehouse durin
:. the past few days: Averages ranging frOI
). SIS to $50 per hundred, for whole barns
!, all grades, have been of frequent occur
renee.
One of the ups and downs of an energeti
III merchants existence is to keep the quail
atp and the prices doom. By the way the
W are doing it very effectually at E. q. DAVI
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